Dawson, William M.O.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John W. Mason (1842-1917) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1888
Overview
Correspondence, legal papers, photographs, and printed materials of John W. Mason (1842-1917). Mason was a circuit court and state Supreme Court judge, member of the Virginia State Debt Commission, and commissioner of Internal Revenue. The general correspondence contains personal and business letters, as well as manuscript speeches, notebooks, and reports. The period while Mason was circuit judge is particularly sparse. Also includes Internal Revenue correspondence consisting of about 8,500...
Dates:
1831-1928
Virgil Anson Lewis, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1507
Overview
Published and unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches of Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first state historian and archivist and a former state superintendent of schools. Subjects include the exploration, Indian wars, and settlement of Western Virginia; the Tory insurrection in the Valley of Lost River, 1781; the West Virginia new state movement; Masonry in West Virginia; Andrew S. Rowan; and various West Virginia authors. Correspondents include: George W. Atkinson, Waitman...
Dates:
1895-1912
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- Elections 1
- Freemasons 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Grafton. 1
- Indians of North America 1
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- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
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- Virginia - Debt Commission. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
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